Lance Howarth is CEO of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, leading our charitable mission. People are sometimes surprised to learn that Raspberry Pi is a charity: every penny we make from selling the Pi goes into our charitable mission, where it’s used to support schools, train teachers, create resources and help fund other computing and learning initiatives. Back in May he gave a talk at TEDx Oxbridge, explaining what it is we’re up to here at Pi Towers, with help from Babbage the Bear and some rubber bands. It’s just gone live, and we though you’d like to check it out.

Babbage’s parachute did deploy properly so he didn’t free fall all the way to the ground! Also he jumped/fell from just over 39km not 39.5km. He could have jumped from 40km but I didn’t want to brat Felix’s record by too much :-)

Thinking of cool RPi uses: what happened to the Portugese Postoffice guy who told us about the retrofit of their sorting frames? Last I knew he was told to un-post it and have an interview without coffee; I hope he survived/upgraded.